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Can You Believe It? Drug Makers Raising Prices Before Reform Passes

How dare they maximize profit: “Harvard health economist, Joseph P. Newhouse, said he found a similar pattern of unusual price increases after Congress added drug benefits to Medicare a few years ago… Just as the program was taking effect in 2006, the drug industry raised prices by the widest margin in a half-dozen years.”

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- March 22, 2010 -

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